Sadara Ventures led a $1 million round in Yamsafer, a Ramallah, Palestine-based travel startup founded by Faris Zaher, Seri Abdelhadi and Sameh Alfar. Sadara Ventures is backed by Google Foundation, ...

Yamsafer, an online hotel booking website re-launched its website this past week with the "Cardless Bookings" feature, where just like its name implies, a credit card is not required to book or ...

Tourism websites are already woefully underutilized by travelers and Bluebridge has its work cut out to create app products people probably aren't banging the door down for. Each week we create a ...

Global Founders Capital, the European investment fund set up in 2013 by Rocket Internet founders Oliver and Marc Samwer, has led a $3.5 million Series B funding round in Middle East hotel booking ...

Sadara Ventures is a $30 million fund that invests primarily in early-stage Palestinian tech startups. The fund's main backers include Google Foundation, Cisco, The George Soros Economic Development ...

The Ramallah-based hotel booker focuses both on Arabic content and regional bookings that are attractive to travelers still trying to make sense of the post-Arab Spring travel map. Yamsafer is the ...

Online hotel booking platform Yamsafer (“the traveller” in Arabic) is based in Ramallah, Palestine, making it not only the first booking site to cater completely to the Arabian travel market, but the ...

Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A Palestinian online travel start-up that hopes to be Ramallah’s first major high-tech success ...